Fastening device for wearing-apparel.



E. BATTISTI. FASTENING DEVICE FOR WEARING APPAREL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 7, 1912.

1,129,624. Patented Feb. 23, 1915.

favenior HE NORRIS PETERS CO, PHOTO-LITHO WASHINGTON. D. C.

ENRICO BATTISTI, 0F ROME, ITALY.

FASTENING DEV ICE FOR WEARING-APPAREL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 7, 1912. Serial No. 719,259.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ENRIoo BAT'rIsTI, 0f Rome, in the Kingdom of Italy, have 1nvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices for Wearing- Apparel, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part thereof.

The object of the present invention is a fastening device for temporarily jolnlng together the edges of dress articles such as shoes, leggings, gloves, corsets, and the like, in substitution of buttons, laces, buckles, eyelet-holes, clasps, &c., as well as the ends of wrappers for parcels and the like, thus doing away with stitches and seals.

The device is formed of three parts, namely of two side pieces applied to the borders of the ends to be joined together, the said pieces being equal and disposed symmetrically like two ribbons with the.

borders facing themselves turned outward with respect to the joining line, that is to say each border turned toward the edge, to which is applied the piece, and of the third intermediate or looking piece, which is also shaped like a ribbon with the borders turned inward. In order to establish the connection, this middle piece is pushed into the two approached side pieces in such a way that its borders turned inward slide beneath the outward turned borders of the side pieces, joining them together.

In the annexed drawings: Figure 1 shows a portion of the ribbon constituting either one of the two side pieces, or the middle piece, before bending one of its borders, or both, the said ribbon having been strengthened by means of a continuous wire strand; Fig. 1 is similar to Fig. 1, but the ribbon is strengthened by means .of a wlre chaln; Fig. 2 shows a front view of one of the two side pieces, one of its borders being bent; Fig. 3 shows a front view of the middle piece both of its borders being bent; Fig. 4 shows the entire device, partially locked and in operation; Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8 are respectively crross-sections on lines 55 of Fig. 1*; 66 of Fig. 2; 77 of Fig. 3 and 88 of Fig. 4:.

As shown in the drawings, the two side Patented Feb. 23, 1915.

pieces have the shape of a ribbon -a, the

border Z7 of which is turned outward so as to form a groove, and the middle piece -c is also shaped like a ribbon, but both of the borders d of which are turned inward. The side pieces are sewed, stitched or otherwise secured to the borders of the ends to be joined together, so that their outward turned corners -b face each other. In this way, when the ends are sufiiciently approached, the inward turned borders ..d of the middle piece may be caused to slide within the groove formed by the outward turned borders -?9 of the side pieces. The flexibility necessary to easily fit the said pieces to the diiferent shapes of the edges to be joined together is obtained by forming each of the three pieces with a web of zigzagged wire passing from one border to the other on the whole width of the ribbon, and to prevent the wire from yielding and stretching, in the middle portion is applied a suitable connecting means, such as a continuous wire strand Z. t. (Fig. 1), or a chain Z. a. (Fig. 1 with ring-shaped links, in order to keep together the successive zigzagged segments.

In the drawing the ribbon is shown as formed by a hand provided with cutsso as to form the said zigzagged segments, but the ribbon may also be formed from a simple, successively bent wire.

When the device is applied to an article, of which the borders to be joined are already permanently united at one of their ends, as is the case with a shoe, then the middle piece may be provided with a spring button e (Figs. 3 and 4) having the wellknown shape which at the end of the stroke of the middle piece joins in the known mannker with a resilient crown fastened to the s 0e.

Having now fully described this my in vention and how the same is to be carried out, I declare that what I claim is In a device for joining together the edges of clothes and the like, comprising two side pieces having a border turned outward so as to form a groove, and a third piece having both of the borders turned inward, in

order to connect the latter with the former ones, causing it to shove with its bent bor- In testimony, that I claim the foregoing ders into the grooves of the side pleces, the as my invention, I have signed my name 1n sald three pieces being formed by a Wire presence of two subscrlbmg Witnesses.

replicately zigzagged from one border to the ENRICO BATTISTI. other, in order to form a plain metallic Web, Witnesses:

and suitable means connecting the zigzagged LETTERIS LABSCCETTA,

segments on the middle line of the Web. ANToNINo LABSCCETTA.

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